spiculum
Americannoun
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spicula
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of spiculum
1740–50; < Latin spīculum; see spicule
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Rossiter in this autumn of 1917 was extremely interested in certain crucial experiments he was making with spiculum in sponge-cells; with scleroblasts, "mason-cells," osteoblasts, and "consciousness" in bone-cells.
From Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement by Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston
The failures they experienced, even their humble successes, were met with sneers and laughter; till at last Hermose held up aloft a little spicula of gold about the thickness of a pencil.
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever
It publishes itself in creatures, reaching from particles and spicula, through transformation on transformation to the highest symmetries, arriving at consummate results without a shock or a leap.
From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Edna Henry Lee Turpin
The last fact, trivial as it appears, assumes immense importance when we learn that to these spicula we must turn for an explanation of the isolated masses of flint which abound in various chalk formations.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various
The whole surface is uniformly covered with short compressed calcareous spicula embedded in the cuticle.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various
I have received and read with interest your paper on the sponge with horny spicula.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin
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